2014 T&D Year in Review: Wandering from a traditional to a modern, smarter grid

Date: November/December 2014
Publication: Electricity Today

Steven Collier's expertise in the world of smart grid takes a deep-dive into 2014's successes and failures--all focused on progressing from the traditional grid to a more modern, efficient grid. As Collier suggests, the power grid's "run to fail" mode is not sustainable and reliability continues to decline at a rate that electric utilities can no longer afford (and nor can the U.S. economy). But the optimal word is "progress," which exists in the advent of the Internet of Things, distribution management systems, renewable energy resources and more. Read more.